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San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides. Because of this, the Ferry Building was once the busiest place in The City. Each day over 50,000 people passed through.
When the bridges were built in the mid-1930s, people starting driving instead of taking ferries; the once-vital Ferry Building gradually fell into disuse. Adding to the insult, it was walled off by the Embarcadero Freeway for thirty-five years.
In the 1990s the freeway was torn down; in the early 2000s, the Ferry Building was given a major makeover and a brand new function.
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